From: Philippe Verdy (verdy_p@wanadoo.fr)
Date: Wed Dec 24 2003 - 09:44:02 EST
Michael Everson wrote to the unicode list:
> Philippe Verdy wrote to that same list:
> >It's a shame that someone like you invest so much in an area that
> >would better be specified by other communities.
>
> Is it indeed.
Thanks for not flaming me about what you could have considered as a
personal attack. It was quite frontal, I admit it was a needed
shock, and I hope that you did not feel frustrated about your valuable
work. It's just that the recent tone of discussions in the list
was probably frustrating a lot of people wishing to contribute, even
if they made errors or gave some sentences that could be wrongly
interpreted beyond what was really intended.
It's hard to be both concise and precise in simple discussion emails
and we can admit errors more silently provided that they don't affect
specifications that do really need urgent clarification when they
are ambiguous. Discussions are there to allow expliciting concepts
that are or may be ambiguous. No need to insult anyone here if he has
not understood some problem or concept, or not used the more
appropriate terms in something that was not intended to be kept in
archives.
So I will try to be more concise, but I urge readers stop flaming
me about the possible interpretation of a single word, as it occurs
too often. It is those reactions that required me to be more explicit
about what I meant, but this was not a way to create more assertions
or specifications. If I meant to specify something exhaustively, this
would not be on this list, but I'd call for a separate review, and I
would take much more time to reread my document before submitting
it for review (and this could still contain errors or omissions as
I work alone on these Unicode-related subjects).
Thanks.
Philippe.
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